PETER EMSLIE!he's one of my character design Profs at Sheridan...great guy and an amazing artist...everyone would beg him for a charicature...heres a link to one he did of me...its also my display picture at the moment

Good old Tom Hatten used to host boatloads of Popeye cartoons on Saturday morning on KTLA in Los Angeles (in between 3 Stooges and 'Santa Claus Versus The Martians'/Pippi Longstocking double bills).

I'd spend hours watching the craziness and trying to figure out what Popeye was grumbling. I'm especially fond of the way they took the time to animate the opening and closing of the ship doors during the credit sequences, scored in perfect time to the music - as you said, it was yet another simle touch that kept even a still sequence feel like it was moving.

My introduction to popeye was also Tom Hatten! (though the early 80's version)The only TV channel we had that wasn't local was a Los Angeles feed of KTLA.Saturday (or was it Sunday?) you couldn't budge me from in front of the TV while I watched "Popeye And His Friends", as well as The Three Stooges, The Munsters, Twilight Zone and finally, I believe, ending with the Family Film Festival.